Government approves Atomic Energy Commissions’ bill

6-18-13 Shafaq News / Iraqi government said on Tuesday, that it has approved a bill of Atomic Energy Commission and referred it to the parliament for discussion and voting on it.

The Commission will develop costs strategy, timing of nuclear programs for peaceful purposes, prepare cadres during the rebuilding of the material base and create infrastructure of nuclear systems after being formed.

“ The cadres and property of the Atomic Energy Organization, which was dissolved after the fall of the former regime and transferred to the Ministry of Science and Technology after Iraq’s commitment to pay all its financial dues obligations to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has been re-participated in full membership, as projects of technical cooperation were invested under the auspices of the National correlation Coordinator of Iraq with the agency,” The government said in a statement reported for “Shafaq News”.

It is hoped that Atomic Energy Commission will be linked directly to the Ministry of Science and Technology as a national body to control radiation will be formed and directly linked to the Ministry of Environment in an effort to revive its peaceful nuclear program.

The government said in a statement that “the General Secretariat of the Cabinet has appointed the National correlation Coordinator at the end of 2008 to coincide with the establishment of the Atomic Energy Directorate in the Ministry of Science and Technology to support its work”.

Iraqi nuclear sites were subjected to mass destruction, especially Tuwaitha site which was destroyed in the eighties of the last century as the Iraqi government represented by the Ministry of Science and Technology is carrying out process of dismantling and clearing the site.

Tuwaitha nuclear research facility – which was built in the sixties of the last century on an area of ​​56 square kilometers south of Baghdad – consists many of the buildings, which included the waste treatment activities and others focused on a number of techniques to enrich uranium.

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